How to Use red maple in a Sentence

red maple

noun
  • The red maple is one of the best known and does have that red or red-orange color early in the fall.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Rhode Island Rhode Island's state tree is the red maple.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The large tree — a red maple — was about two feet in diameter.
    CBS News, 28 July 2022
  • Tata Harper's crème riche is known for its red maple bark and hyaluronic acid.
    Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2021
  • Fall color appears first in the reds of sourwoods, dogwoods and red maples.
    Karen Chávez, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The saplings of red maple, northeastern red oak and eastern redbud are $5 each.
    cleveland, 21 Mar. 2022
  • There’s a red maple branch, for instance, that looks plucked from a Vermont tree during the fall peak season.
    Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2019
  • They are known to feed on over 70 plant species, including black walnut, red maple and tree of heaven.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2023
  • And patches of hickory beech, red maple, and birch trees sprinkled the heathlands.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2021
  • Despite its common name, red maple does not have red leaves through the whole growing season.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The infested tree was a red maple tree, according to Santos.
    USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2020
  • There is nothing like a blazing bright red maple tree to celebrate the beauty of autumn.
    oregonlive, 6 Nov. 2020
  • In addition to the large conifers, the area has hardwoods including yellow birch, sugar maple, red maple and red oak.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2019
  • But a new design for the front yard this year (courtesy of a now missing 75-foot red maple lost to a storm last year) yielded a tidy new lawn that needed mowing.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 22 May 2020
  • Over the years, he's been acknowledged by the judges for a single brown oak leaf on a bed of red maple leaves, a spread of dogwood blossoms, and the interior of a camellia.
    Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • In front of my house stands a mediocre specimen of the locally native red maple, Acer rubrum.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2018
  • At the Bakers’ farm in North Carolina, a mixture of pine trees, sweetgum, red maple, white oak, and other species grow on the roughly 80 acres of woodland.
    Carey L. Biron, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2021
  • The large tree was a red maple approximately 2 feet in diameter, the park said.
    Fox News, 27 July 2022
  • The grant will help pay for serviceberry shrubs, ornamental grass and red maple trees.
    John Benson, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Seedlings will include red maple, sugar maple, Douglas-fir and more, according to a press release.
    Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Caddo and trident maples are also good choices, but not silver maple, red maple and the smooth-bark hybrids such as Autumn Blaze.
    Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Larger trees offered were eastern red cedar, Serbian spruce, red maple and English oak.
    Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Other species that are thriving in the swampy water include hibiscus, cypress trees and red maple.
    Mayra Cruz, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Kwiatkowski said luna moth caterpillars are also known to feed on the leaves of hickory, birch, red maple, white oak, and sassafras.
    Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
  • Outside, a few stubborn red maple leaves clung to branches, hanging near our dining room window.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The park is populated by tulip poplars, American beech, oaks, white pine, sycamores, box elders, and red maples, among other species.
    Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Maples differ by species, as red maple turns brilliant scarlet; sugar maple, orange-red; and black maple, yellow.
    Fox News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Those opposed to helping Meteor said the focus should be on the wetlands loss, especially 13.37 acres of white pine and red maple swamp.
    Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In the absence of a tree-of-heaven, a lanternfly will settle for and on black walnut, river birch, willow, sumac, red maple and grapes, some of which hit closer to home than others.
    Detroit Free Press, 14 May 2023
  • Some popular native fall foliage plants include the burgundy black gum tree, the bright yellow American beech and the red maple tree.
    Tammy Sons, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021

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